Quotes About Medicis

#1. I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

Jill Sobule

#2. The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Philip Johnson

#3. It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion.

Aristotle.

#4. I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

Larry David

#5. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#6. You can only push me so far little slakax, and then I will do what has to be done, with or without your permission.

Poppet

#7. Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Beth Moore

#8. In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.

Alton Tobey

#9. Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.

Dean Koontz

#10. The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

Timothy Keller

#11. Young men preen. Old men scheme.

Mason Cooley

#12. Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

George P. Shultz

#13. How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Brene Brown

#14. If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#15. I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

Patti Davis